im in a hurt here, i setup two systems out of 6 yesterday not a problem, bottom of the rack. then today i wired the rest very neatly etc. go to turn on the 3,4,5,6 and first one fire on the vrm under the heatsink next to cpu. 4th same place but caught it before it got bad, 5th i heard a pop but couldn't find anything, 6th a chip on the top of the mb burned a little. This sucks but things happen. i took pics of the mb setup and my pdu. you can see i have the mb's on aluminum standoffs 1" and its sitting on a piece of flashing. the pico ground in on the standoff cause its a round jack for pico power from a pcie cable. not sure what i need to do to fix this possible short? like i said i didnt have a problem with the two on the bottom but then 3-4,5-6 had problems... any help is good help.
never had once board fry ,usually its the card that goes not the mother board. Let alone 2 ? bad PICOs talk to ur vendor
wait a min WTF you need to put the boards on standoffs that are not conductable to the metal rig frame !! I use pizza boxes to stand the mother boards on
Sorry but i find this kinda funny, Im suprised you didnt fry every single motherboard that was connected metal to metal to the frame !!
Is this the first PC you have ever put together ? most folks who build PC's learned the hardway when the short out a few boards learning that you need to ground yourself before event working on a board
you can do this by touching anything metal or the floor even if its not insulated